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  1. 3 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

    My buddy in Houston got one of these plans after he got his Tesla and started charging it and deep cooling at night.

    It didn’t quite give him the savings he was after.

    So he got two of the Tesla batteries installed (solar panels were back ordered)

    He’d charge his car, batteries, and get his house down to like 65 at night. Use the battery during the day. His bill dropped by at least half.

    They finally got his solar panels in and installed them.

    It’s a rare month where he pays anything for electricity…. Which is nuts to say in Houston, Tx.

    I don’t know what his ROI is for what he dropped…. But his feeling that he’s hacked the system gives him something that’s hard to quantify 

    A few years back I got a quote from Tesla to install the solar panels and batteries.  My patio home does not have space around it to install a gas fired back up generator so I was looking for another option for back up power and to save on electricity as well.  The quote was for around $80,000 to power my entire house and IIRC the batteries would only last a couple of days with no sun.  My electricity bills are so low that I would never get a return on the $80,000 cost.  I didn’t pull the trigger.  I’ve heard the cost of the batteries will be coming down so one day I may revisit it.  

  2. 1 hour ago, PvilleStang said:

    Same as Russian Ransomware employees.  Same as thieves.  When your livelihood is doing knowingly illegal and malicious activities, you can go F yourself.

    This.  Jeez, OJ was a human being too.  

  3. 46 minutes ago, horn4life said:

    Wilcrest or Kirkwood was my exit growing up in Houston.  I can only imagine what the commute is daily now.  Moved to Austin in '79 and that was that. 

    Commute to where?  Downtown?  It’s probably faster than it was in 1979 with several more lanes in use.  I commuted to downtown from Campbell-I-10 from 2004-2015 and it was about 15 minutes each way unless there was a wreck.  Wilcrest would add 5 minutes or so.  Of course, being Houston, a wreck or something unusual could add 5-15 minutes any given day, but I could generally count on sitting at my desk 18 minutes after I left my house in Spring Valley.  On a good day I could be home in 13 minutes.  

  4. On 4/14/2024 at 11:20 PM, Larry T. Spider said:

    In this part of the world droughts end in floods. The lake will eventually be full again no matter what this summer or next brings. It’s just a matter of the prolonged pain until it happens. Sadly, most of the Austin population is completely oblivious to how this could play out in the very near future.

    This.  Lake Travis goes up and down--that's what it does.  https://www.golaketravis.com/waterlevel/

    We can look at the data in many ways depending on your outlook and agenda.  The very current trend doesn't look good.

    Looking at the 10 highest levels ever, 8 of the highest levels have occurred since December 1991.  Looking at the lowest 10 levels ever, 6 of the lowest levels have occurred in that time.  If you look at 2010 to the present, two of the highest levels ever have occurred in that time, while three of the lowest levels ever have occurred since 2010.  

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  5. 32 minutes ago, Bert Orange said:

    guess this is the most current active thread…
     

    Anyone a member at Riverbend sugarland?  Debating between it and Westwood. 

    Not familiar with Riverbend but I used to play Westwood several times a year and I liked it.  

  6. 1 minute ago, crash_davis said:

    The families got no justice. Not sure if they ever saw a penny from the civil suit. He looked like he lived his years carefree and with plenty of money. 

    IIRC, he got over $300k annually from his NFL pension.  Creditors cannot get to it.  But they took the rest.  

  7. 55 minutes ago, Frank Drebin said:

    It was all about the venue.  The DA should have filed the case in Santa Monica judicial district instead of downtown Los Angeles.  That is all that mattered in this case.  Everyone knew he did it.  The jury just did not care.

    This.  And the judge was horrible.  No way that case needed 11 months to try.  He would hold a separate hearing to determine whether he needed to have a hearing.   

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  8. 30 minutes ago, chainsaw said:

    I think the takeaway here is a lot of these ER visits could have been prevented if these people had listened to their own bodies and sought medical attention weeks before. I can't imagine going over a week without a bowel movement. Six fucking weeks???

    I can’t imagine going a day without a bowel movement, but I’m 61 and I’ve never been constipated.  

  9. 55 minutes ago, Poester said:

    I’m having a hard time understanding this obsession with forcing an election. Gantz would pursue the exact same military strategy. 

    Well, some people just hate Bibi.  

  10. One of the pluses to staying/fishing at Hackberry Lodge south of Lake Charles is the fresh shrimp they sell at the lodge.  I’m sure other lodges in Louisiana sell shrimp as well.  They said the shrimp were not from the large commercial shrimpers that stay offshore for a week or so at a time and flash freeze the shrimp, but from local bay shrimpers.  Either way, the shrimp are fantastic.  When I used to go offshore on chartered trips from Freeport a favorite thing was to trade a case or two of beer for a sack of shrimp from the offshore shrimpers.  Not sure if that shrimp was ever frozen but it was fantastic.  I agree with the OP-never buy farm raised shrimp.  

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  11. 14 minutes ago, nnm said:

    Those were the exact two that came to my mind. Old school letterman was awesome. And then he got cynical, nasty, and political. 
    Carson was the epitome of 60s-70s cool. 

    This 100%.  Loved Letterman in the 80’s.  Carson is still the GOAT.  

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Carl Spackler said:

    Necro-bump simply because I happened across a Schlitz beer jingle from the early 1970's that the Steely Dan boys did for the money.  Between SD extolling the virtues of shitty beer in their inimitable way and the Mad Men-style marketing, it's fascinating.

     

    Shitty beer?  Schlitz beer until around 1978 or so was fantastic.  They fucked with the recipe, and had some terrible ads, and it basically died.  I don’t remember the Steely Dan ad.  

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  13. 15 hours ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I'm with you. 

    I think about it with Pat Mahomes. I don't remember him doing anything different than other Tech QBs didn't do for 20 years. Now he's the best player in the league while the other ones flamed out.

     

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    The evaluation of talent by professional and collegiate teams has always been interesting.  The so-called experts get it wrong quite often.  Here are just a few that come to mind.  Albert Pujols was a 13th round pick.  Sam Bowie was chosen over Michael Jordan in the 84 draft.  Ryan Leaf was the second overall pick in 98.  Brady was a 6th round pick and Montana was a 3rd round pick.  And how many 4-5 star recruits out of HS never panned out at UT?  I've always thought that men are still physically developing into their 20's and it's hard to tell which athletes will get to the next level and which have already peaked.  And then there's the issue that the perceived top HS and college players often play against different levels of talent and it's hard to compare them to each other.

  14. 12 minutes ago, Helobious said:

    I’ve never had a moon pie. I don’t think they sold them in Texas until recent years because I definitely don’t recall ever seeing one at a store until recently. 

    They were all over SE Texas in the late 60’s/70’s.  Haven’t look for them in a couple of decades though.  

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  15. 35 minutes ago, crash_davis said:

    This should make the young people happy.

     

    https://www.newsweek.com/older-americans-stis-1884175

    Older Americans now have twice as many sexually transmitted infections (STI) when compared to a decade ago, a new study has found.

    According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the rates of STIs in adults aged 55 and older have doubled over the past decade.

    "Rising divorce rates, forgoing condoms as there is no risk of pregnancy, the availability of drugs for sexual dysfunction, the large number of older adults living together in retirement communities, and the increased use of dating apps are likely to have contributed to the growing incidence of STIs in the over 50s", Justyna Kowalska, who is presenting the research, said in a statement.

    "These data likely underestimate the true extent of the problem, as limited access to sexual health services for the over 50s, and trying to avoid the stigma and embarrassment both on the part of older people and healthcare professionals, is leading to this age group not seeking help for STIs."

    For example, gonorrhea cases rose from 15 per 100,000 people in 2015, to 57 per 100,000 in 2019.

    Gotta be fake news.  Post-menopausal women don’t have sex.  Ask my wife.  

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  16. On 3/24/2024 at 12:45 PM, topochico said:

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    This is the answer, especially in tejano music.  Can’t stand it.  It’s just one song that is played over and over, right?  

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  17. I agree with much of what's posted so far--especially the impact of social media on our youth.  There's also the issue of news reporting in general which finds its way into social media.  The book Factfulness, by the late Hans Rosling (a retired MD from Sweden and a social democrat) and his son and daughter-in-law gives a good explanation of how news is reported and how people get a grossly incorrect understanding of the human condition on very important issues, such as world health, women's education, the levels of poverty around the world, etc.  

    In addition, having co-raised two daughters, now almost 33 and 30, and seeing how they and their friends navigated high school and the somewhat early days of social media, I observed that their generation and those younger lived in a world of superlatives.  "Awesome" was used in every sentence.  If some high level of achievement wasn't reached it seemed like the endeavor was a failure.  Everything--vacations, college admissions, first job, etc. had to be the best or it was a disappointment.  Sadly, many of my girls' peers were disappointed a lot.  And getting back to social media, people report on the highlights of their lives so the disappointment hits home.  

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  18. 1 hour ago, jimmyjazz said:

    That seems a little surprising, to be honest, but UT has a way of fucking up admissions.

     

    Wait, the kids are pulling against UT or the parents?  I'd tell my kid "good luck" and then to pound sand for a couple of hours.

    No, the parents that are UT exes.  Still pissed their kids didn’t get into UT.  

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